Stack Sizer
Size a self-hosted stack from official sources.
Load and options
Qdrant
v1.0.0Load
Up to 1 million vectors of 768 dimensions (float32) with ~1 KiB payload each, no quantization: several knowledge bases or a production semantic search.
Options
No options change this app's resources.
Recommended resources
App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.
vCPU 2.52, RAM 6 GiB, Disk 15.755 GiB
vCPU2.52
RAM6GiB
Disk15.755GiB
Breakdown
| Line | From | vCPU | RAM (GiB) | Disk (GiB) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qdrant | Qdrant · Medium load | 2 | 3.75 | 5.6 | 1234 |
| System baseline | Operating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 1 containers | 0.1 | 1.25 | 8.1 | 5678910 |
| Safety headroom | vCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline | 0.42 | 1 | 2.055 | 11612913 |
| Recommended total | 2.52 | 6 | 15.755 |
Sources
- Qdrant docs: Capacity Planning (dense = points × dims × 4 B; HNSW = points × m 16 × 2 × 4 B × 1.2; ID tracker 52 B/point; payload × 1.5; +20% headroom; ~100M vectors per node ceiling) (Qdrant, read 14 Oct 2026)
- config/config.yaml at v1.19.2 (storage_path ./storage, snapshots_path ./snapshots, http_port 6333, grpc_port 6334, api_key unset, cluster disabled, telemetry_disabled false) (Qdrant, read 14 Oct 2026)
- qdrant/qdrant:v1.19.2-unprivileged amd64 layers: 74,798,094 B compressed, 203,164,672 B unpacked (decompressed tars); User 1000:1000, no Healthcheck; has bash and grep (Qdrant, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Qdrant Cloud docs: Create a Cluster (free tier node: 1 GB RAM, 0.5 vCPU, 4 GB disk, 1 node) (Qdrant, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
Deployment Spec
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A short lowercase image id, for example ubuntu-24.04.